Google ships Gemini 3.8 Live: SOTA realtime audio model across 97 languages
minchoi · x · 2026-09-16
Google DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick announced Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, calling them new SOTA live audio models at frontier price + performance. 3.8 Live supports 97 languages with seamless switching, async tool calls, and more; the Extended Thinking variant adds reasoning to realtime voice.
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